Offshore (novel)

Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

Offshore (hydrocarbons)

"Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.

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Houston oilfield service company Halliburton performed its first offshore cementing job in 1947 at a rig in the Gulf of Mexico’s CreoleField. Decades later, offshore accounts for a significant percentage of the company’s revenues ... What are some of the biggest challenges involved with offshore exploration and development today?....

The NNPC helmsman stated that deepwater projects had benefited the wider Nigerian economy by boosting demand for a range of goods and services, including offshore vessels and platforms, materials, floating hotels, helicopters and manpower, as well as creating jobs and providing ......

The NNPC helmsman stated that deepwater projects had benefited the wider Nigerian economy by boosting demand for a range of goods and services, including offshore vessels and platforms, materials, floating hotels, helicopters and manpower, creating jobs and providing wide range of training and maintenance services to the industry locally....

Has anyone thought about who is going to be employed and have the money to purchase the products of robots? No doubt we will be promised all kinds of new and better jobs like we were promised to take the place of the offshored manufacturing and professional servicejobs. The promised jobs never showed up....

Service Economy ...Today many of these ‘service’ jobs are performed outside the U.S., manufacturing was mostly off-shored and the agricultural economy is drowning in debt ... It is largely ignored that most of these servicejobs were also eventually offshored – again, neo classical economists do not measure outcomes....

The ladders of upward mobility are being rapidly dismantled by offshore production for US markets, job outsourcing and importation of foreign professionals on work visas ...Under pressure from offshore outsourcing, the US economy only creates low productivity jobs in low-pay domestic services....

But that was a time before US corporations took to outsourcing jobs and locating production for US markets offshore.&nbsp;. US imports of goods and services rise each time a US factory moves offshore or a US job is outsourced. Goods and services produced offshore by US corporations for US customers count as imports and worsen the trade deficit....

One wonders at the competence of the Fuqua School of Business.&nbsp; If a 40-50 percent increase in offshored product development jobs, a 65 percent increase in offshored R&D jobs, and a more than 80 percent increase in offshored engineering services and product design-projects jobs do not constitute US job loss, what does?....

They are bonuses for making or exceeding profit expectations by such practices as offshoringjobs and lowering production costs ... The more they can worsen income inequality by offshoringAmericanjobs, the higher they are paid ... A real solution as opposed to a theoretical one will have to address the powerful incentive to offshorejobs....

The Times’ editorialists do not understand that the offshoring of Americanjobs, which the Times mistakenly thinks is free trade, is a far greater threat to America than a reminder from the Chinese, who are tired of US bullying, that China is America’s banker....

Offshoring is now reaching beyond manufacturing into high-end servicejobs.&nbsp; Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, estimates that there are as many as 30 million US servicejobs filled by college graduates that are susceptible to offshoring....